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Custom ROMs have always been a thing, whether you love them or hate them, and CyanogenMod has always been the most popular one. If you can remember, they incorporated a few months ago, and are now working with OnePlus on their One smartphone (set to launch soon), so they’ve made some ground from early last year. Today, they’re looking to take this further by unveiling new branding and a retouched logo.

Abhisek Devkota attempts to explain every bit of the new look, including the logo’s minute details. He also states that freedom to modify devices as the user wishes is still at the core of CyanogenMod, and is the focus of Cyanogen going forward.

With the picture above, Devkota goes on to explain the intricacies of the logo. At the heart of everything, as mentioned before, is customization. The “C” is to “bring together the users and the community,” as it represents the security of the ROM. And finally, now the smallest part of everything, is remaining open source.

It is also noted that the arrow for open source points forward, and that the whole “screw” design is meant to show that this is a project in motion still. Interesting stuff, folks.

If you were wondering about Cid, the old CyanogenMod mascot, he lives on as part of the community. In the words of Devkota, “Cid belongs to the community, he is yours, not the company’s”. Oh, and the recklessness isn’t quite yet gone. One of the images still shows “Void your warranty,” so we know we’re still dealing with the same ol’ folks.

The blog post is ended with Cyanogen telling users that they will “build something unique” — that’s what we like to see. Thoughts on the new look?

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Looks like something from the TV show Lost. It’s one of the “stations” like The Swan.

Bretton Key

People dislike the new logo, but it’s clean and very crisp. They CM team is not longer a club like developer group, they are a focused and a well oiled machine who is trying to usher in a new movement of android development. The logo once again is nice in my opinion but look at the big picture of what they are saying…which is “We are serious about pushing the limits and developing Android to its full potential…”
(Off my soap box, back to regularly scheduled program) #NerdsUp

Nowai

I don’t know, to me it looks like Cyanogen keeps getting less personal. First they got rid of adorable robot and replaced him with some a-lot-less-adorable robot, and now they are moving to some corporate logo thingie.

trixnkix637

Well they are a corporation now.. That would make sense to do.

Nowai

Still disappointing. Corporate is drab, dusty, and covered in middle management. CM embracing that leaves a faint yearning for a simpler time.

panicswhenubered

I like it better than Cid, but it kind of looks like a generic corporate logo from a movie.

danny

i prefer the old one.

Executor

I’d be a lot happier with this in the middle of the current CM11 boot animation than Cid. As it is, I’m still using the CM10 animation so I don’t have to look at him.

steven taylor

I’m not one for immature rants, but IT SUCKS!

Six6Sicks

Ingress. Game Cube. Toilet Bowl. Fail

mrjayviper

love the new design

Jason Melling

What a bizarre article. The “author” says “custom ROMs whether you love them or hate them”. Why would anyone hate a custom ROM ?

A lot of people buy Nexuses (Nexii?) just to feel stock Android. While I would find the unlockable bootloader way too tempting, lots of folks just want stable vanilla

Troof

I don’t know if anyone hates them, but they get old quick. You spend time literally reading 100s of pages in threads trying to figure out how to fix this bug or that bug, figuring out which kernel to flash, etc. only to end up with something that doesn’t fully work.. You just get tired of dealing with it.

Maranello Santiago

My sister had a stock Nexus 4 that had more software issues than my rooted and rom’d Nexus 4. I told her to root. I prefer not to stay stock, even on a Nexus, even though that isn’t the preference of others.

Nowai

I have a love-hate relationship with custom ROMs. On one hand they are leaner, and perform much better than TouchWiz on SGS3. On the other, text messaging is once again intermittent (an upgrade from not working!), and now I can’t call out at all. I could go back to the old version, but that dropped GPS and did not text at all. Basically, I have yet to run a version of CM that worked in every aspect. Even their stable releases go bonkers shortly after installing. The easiest fix has been to do a factory reset, or flash a newer version. Factory reset sucks, and flashing a newer version is sort of a wildcard – it might fix most things for a while, and it might break some others. As a result, running custom ROMs has been a gamble.

The new logo is nice… but it looks very generic. this logo has been done before.

Colton

Very clean. Meaning of each part is pretty interesting, glad they (and you) included that. Nice article!

yummy

Very nice

Alex Boro

Looks like the gamecube logo

Chris

It does…

C-Law

I cannot unsee

T_Dizzle

Somewhat but not 3d looking like the game cube logo.

Tony Byatt

A struggling gaming company, the lawsuit happy environment of today…

I think Cyanogen Inc. my get a visit from Nintendo’s lawyers…

mustbepbs

Did you say Nintendo is struggling..? Quite the opposite, they’re doing the best out of all 3 as far as profits are concerned.

Chris M

because kids that dont know any better keep buying the 3ds or whatever version they are on now. they are not in the same universe as Sony or Microsoft currently when it comes to next gen gaming.

mustbepbs

Yeah because annualized first and third person shooters defines “next gen”. And it’s working out so well for Microsoft and the Xbone.

/s

RiotPenguin

Totally the first thing that came to mind. Weird.

Boblank84

impressive. much more professional looking than cid. really looking forward to seeing the one+

Gato Mafioso

Gradle anyone?

Maxim∑

Why doesn’t Google acquire or work with them?

Good_Ole_Pinocchio

Not sure what Google would gain.

snodrtrider

I always thought the Cyanogen Boot Images were a bit juvenile… this is a step in the right direction!

Catherine

I really like this new logo….thanks for posting this Rithvik

Trey Porter

It’s always good to move forward with change, I like it.

Rashad

That logo looks more business like. It also looks like it belongs to a factory. The original logo looks better IMO.

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